Abstract
Black radical traditions include an orientation towards dreaming of better futures. In this article, I enter a dialogical space for us to explore the relationship between our desire to live a good life and our conceptions of what doing so might entail. Speaking from the perspective of an African-Caribbean person in Britain, I begin by considering the need for us to dream what it means to ‘Liv Good’—where Liv Good is an intersectionally just version of the good life. I discuss Britain’s credo and the liberal philosophical context it emerges out of that makes distinctions between the right and the good, which I claim undermine our entitlement to dream of a good life and give rise to a tendency to consider the good life as secondary to our efforts to achieve political justice. My aim is to highlight the importance of holding in tandem questions about what it means for us to live a good life with questions of justice. By conceptualising and demonstrating Liv Good methodological praxis, I explore the ways in which we can dream Liv Good into reality, by drawing on our own intellectual traditions and honouring our own dream imperatives. I conclude by offering readers an invitation to join me in dreaming Liv Good, engaging its unified ethical framework as a basis from which we can imagine an intersectionally just version of the good life.
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